Bourvil as Augustin Bouvet, house painter

Louis de Funès as Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera

Terry-Thomas as Squadron Leader Sir Reginald Brook, Royal Air Force

Claudio Brook as Peter Cunningham

Mike Marshall as Aircraftman Alan MacIntosh, Royal Air Force

Marie Dubois as Juliette

Pierre Bertin as Juliette's grandfather, owner of the Guignol theater

Andréa Parisy as Sister Marie-Odile

Mary Marquet as Mother Superior of the Hospices de Beaune

Colette Brosset as Madame Germaine

Benno Sterzenbach as Major Achbach

Henri Génès as Keeper of the Vincennes zoo with the Occitan accent

Paul Préboist as Fisherman in the boat

Sieghardt Rupp as Lieutenant Sturmer

Guy Grosso as The talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra

Michel Modo as Cross-eyed German machine gunner

Rudy Lenoir as German soldier on patrol

Jacques Bodoin as Méphistophélès from Faust at the Paris Opera

Reinhard Kolldehoff as German corporal

Helmuth Schneider as German officer of the dining car

Hans Meyer as Otto Weber, elegant SS gruppenführer

Mag-Avril as Old lady in Juliette's building

Gabriel Gobin as Resistance fighter, stagehand at the Paris Opera

Paul Mercey as Mustachioed man at the Turkish Baths

Pierre Roussel as Peter's table neighbor in the dining car

Pierre Bastien as Plombin

Peter Jacob as German general celebrating his birthday at “L’Hôtel du Globe”

Noël Darzal as Lucien

Jacques Sablon as Bébert

Jean Droze as Talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)

Catherine Marshall as Nun at the Hospices de Beaune (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Posier as Patrick, mechanic (uncredited)

Alice Field as Parisian prostitute (uncredited)

Georges Atlas as Gestapo policeman at Augustin's house (uncredited)

Rémy Julienne as German biker receiving a pumpkin (uncredited)

Anne Berger as Marguerite from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)

Guy Bonnafoux as Turkish bths employee / German officer (uncredited)

Clément Michu as Railway postal worker at the station (uncredited)

Konrad von Bork as German Colonel (uncredited)

Jerry Brouer as German soldier (uncredited)

Percival Russel as German sentry knocked out (uncredited)

George Birt as Harry, gunner, Royal Air Force (uncredited)

Nicolas Bang as John, bomber, Royal Air Force (unaccredited)

Raymond Pierson as German soldier (uncredited)

Christian Brocard as Station employee (uncredited)

Sacha Tarride as The first boy (unaccredited)

Lionel Vitrant as Barbot (uncredited)

Anthony Stuart as Dick (uncredited)

Claude Salez as German officer (uncredited)

Fred Fischer as German colonel (uncredited)

Édouard Pignon as Extra at the Paris Opera (uncredited)

Jean Minisini as German soldier (uncredited)

Joachim Westhoff as Actor from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)

Tony Rödel as German non-commissioned officer (uncredited)

Georges-Fréderic Dehlen as German colonel (uncredited)

Guy Fox as The fat guy (uncredited)

Jean Landret as Guide in Chaillot (deleted scene) (uncredited)

Charly Constant as Ludwig (uncredited)

Rolph Spath as German aide-de-camp (uncredited)

Gérard Martin as Harpist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)

Danièle Thompson as Extra (uncredited)

Georges Dehneli as German Commander (uncredited)

Raoul Gola as Pianist (uncredited)

Horst Miessner as First German in the hammam (uncredited)

Jean-François Masson as Second German in the hammam (uncredited)

Bernard Mermod as Non-commissioned officer, clerk at the Kommandantur (uncredited)

Gary Ramm as ilot of the German observation plane that follows the gliders (uncredited)

Claude Rouillard as Second fisherman in the boat (uncredited)

Georges Ruseckis as SS chief in Paris (uncredited)

Joachim Weshoff as Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)